Holder for tumblers or drinking-cups.



L. A CORNELIUS.

HOLDER FOR TUMBLERS OR DRINKING CUPS. APPLICATION FILED MAR.29,1913.

1,098,483, Patented June 2, 1914.

abbowaq UNITED srarns rn rnnr o'smon LOUIS A. CORNELIUS. DIE GRAND RAPIDS, lViliCl-IEGAN.

HOLDER FOR TUMBLERS 0R DRINKING-GUP$.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ju no 2, 1914:.

Application filed March 29, 1913. Serial No. 757,524.

To all whom, it may concern lie it known that I, LOUIS A. Oomqnmus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county 01' Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders tor Tumblers or Drinking-Cups, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to holders for tumblers or drinking cups, and its objects are to provide a device of that character which shall be simple and. economical in construction, and which may be readily adjusted to tumblers of diilerent sizes and which may be securely held in any such adj ustcd positions. These and other objects appearing hereinafter are attained by, and my invention finds a preferable embodiment in, the holder hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of my holder: Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof on line AB of Fig. 1.: 3 is a top plan view of the same: and Fig. i is a vertical section of certain parts, enlarged, on line A-B oi llig. 1, illustrating the contact points of the parts when clamped together.

A suitable support 1, attached, as to a wall surface in any suitable manner as by screws passing through the orifices 2, carries a pair of holding members 3 adjustable to Ward and away from each other to accommodate tumblers of different sizes. These holding members are provided with horizontally-extending mutually engaging bars a and 5, respectively semi-circular in crosssection and the straight side vertical, as particularly shown in Fig. 4-. These bars, having been manually adjusted to accomn'lodate the desired tumbler, aresecured in such adjusted position by horizontally-extending clamp-members 6 and 7 having grooves 8, correspondingly located in the adjacent sides of the clamp members, and semicircular in cross section as shown in said figure. The circle defined by the crosssection of the grooves is of less diameter than that defined by the cross-section oi? the bars, so that, as particularly shown in Fig. 4t, when the clamp members 6 and 7 are pressed to ward each other by the screw l) which passes through both and is threaded in the support 1, the contact points oi each bar with the clamp members are intermediate the vertical.

and horizontal diameters of the bars crosssection, thus insuring a close contact atsuch points, and also pressing the bars into mutual engagement. Furthermore, it will. be seen that owing to the re ilienee of the bars. they are by this construction, forced into close frictional contact, along their entire engaging length, with both clamp members and with each other as well, whereby these bars are securely held in their adjustment.

The head 10 ot the support is squared, as shown, to engage projections 11 on the under clamp member 7 so that the holding members are held from turning movement when the screw clamps the bars: but, the screw being loosened. the holding members may be tmrned a quarter way around and reclampcd on the head, as desired.

The holding members are preferably of wire, bent to term an are shaped portion 12 to receive the tumbler, downwardly eX- tending portions 13 and the bar positions 4L or Not confining myself to details oil? construction shown or described, I claim:

1. In a holder for tumblers, clamp mem bers having corresponding grooves, and holding members adapted to engage opposite sides of a tumbler and having bars adapted to be clamped together in the grooves and "between the clamp members, the contacting sin-faces ot' the clamp members and the bars being oblique to the direction of clamping movement.

In a holder for tumblers, a support having a squared head, and clamp members. one having a seat adapted to receive the squared head, attaching means adapted to detachably fasten said members to the head, and holding members adapted to hold a tumbler and to be clamped between the clamp members.

3. In a holder tor tumblers, (damp meat hers having corresponding grooves, and holding members adapted to engage opposite sides of a tumbler and having bars In testimony whereof I have hereunto set adapted to be clamped together in the my hand in presence of tWo subscribing Witgrooves and between the clamp members, the nesses.

contacting surfaces of the clamp members LOUIS A. CORNELIUS. and the bars being oblique to the direct-ion Witnesses:

of clamping movement and a screw adapted I/IARION A. THOMPSON,

to operate the clamping members. CYRUS W. RICE.

Copiesof this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

